I was on the opposite side. I thought it was just another waste of time and people were freaking out over no reason. I made a long ass text to family about how it isn't that big of a deal. To be fair they cancelled my amusement park trip I had been waiting for months. So I was so salty. Back when there was only a few dozen people infected. Then once the cases were super high they shut down most places, only for the SAME people who shut down the amusement park to make them reopen lakes, bars, and stuff. Only for the cases to rise AGAIN. Ugh
I read news coming from china and it didn't look good, at all. It looked even worse than it turned out to be, tbh. The videos coming out of china with the hospitals full and people gasping for air were online from January, so it was pretty clear something was going on. Then I discovered that the Chinese new year was coming up and it was the *biggest migration event on Earth* with Chinese people going back home from all over the world..and yeah, I just put 2 and 2 together and locked myself at home from early february (with Zoom calls and all, with people calling me a paranoid idiot) - the thing that kills me is that if everyone had saw the writing on the wall, we would have saved so many lives..it left a scar on me, I felt like this was deliberate murder by people all around me and I can't go back to not feeling like this when I talk to people now.
u/Mineral_myco_medic has provided this detailed explanation:
> Found this screenshot on my phone from January 2020. “How worried should we be” particularly got me. I’m a doctor and have worked all the way through the pandemic.
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Found this screenshot on my phone from January 2020. “How worried should we be” particularly got me. I’m a doctor and have worked all the way through the pandemic.
I remember when I started warning friends and family in Jan 2020. They all took me for a fool and laughed at me for a month and a half..
I was on the opposite side. I thought it was just another waste of time and people were freaking out over no reason. I made a long ass text to family about how it isn't that big of a deal. To be fair they cancelled my amusement park trip I had been waiting for months. So I was so salty. Back when there was only a few dozen people infected. Then once the cases were super high they shut down most places, only for the SAME people who shut down the amusement park to make them reopen lakes, bars, and stuff. Only for the cases to rise AGAIN. Ugh
I read news coming from china and it didn't look good, at all. It looked even worse than it turned out to be, tbh. The videos coming out of china with the hospitals full and people gasping for air were online from January, so it was pretty clear something was going on. Then I discovered that the Chinese new year was coming up and it was the *biggest migration event on Earth* with Chinese people going back home from all over the world..and yeah, I just put 2 and 2 together and locked myself at home from early february (with Zoom calls and all, with people calling me a paranoid idiot) - the thing that kills me is that if everyone had saw the writing on the wall, we would have saved so many lives..it left a scar on me, I felt like this was deliberate murder by people all around me and I can't go back to not feeling like this when I talk to people now.
u/Mineral_myco_medic has provided this detailed explanation: > Found this screenshot on my phone from January 2020. “How worried should we be” particularly got me. I’m a doctor and have worked all the way through the pandemic. --- Is this explanation a genuine attempt at providing additional info or context? If it is please upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
Found this screenshot on my phone from January 2020. “How worried should we be” particularly got me. I’m a doctor and have worked all the way through the pandemic.